ELA+3+Lesson+26

Topic: Make Your Mark- To reach a goal takes hard work

Common Core Standards: RI3.2 Determine the main idea of a text; recount the key details and explain how they support the main idea.

RL3.2 Recount stories, such as folktales and myths, from diverse cultures; determine the central message, lesson or moral and explain how it is conveyed through key details in the text.

W3.2a-d Write informative/explanatory texts to examine a topic and convey ideas and information clearly.

L3.1g Form and use comparative and superlative adjectives and adverbs and choose between them depending on what is to be modified.

L3.4b Determine the meaning of the new word formed when a known affix is added to a known word (agreeable/disagreeable, comfortable/uncomfortable).

Suggested Student Objectives: 1. Students will listen for and identify main ideas and details. 2. Students will analyze and evaluate information in a selection. 3. Students will plan, develop, revise and edit informational paragraphs.

Suggested Additional Readings: 1. [|Roaring 20's] 2. [|Lyrics to Route 66] 3. [|Bunion Run]

Resource Links: 1. [|Facts about Roaring 20's] 2. [|Venn Diagram Interactive]

Activities 1. Students (as a class) will utilize an interactive Venn Diagram to compare and contrast the beetle and the paca in "Paca and the Beetle" (A Brazilian Folktale, Journey's magazine, unit 6, pgs. 4-5) 2. Students will utilize a Venn Diagram comparing and contrasting themselves to a family member or close friend. This will become an expository essay.

Assessments: 1. Weekly Test, Lesson 26 2. Compare/Contrast essay, Writing Rubric, TE (Unit 5, R.17)

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